In order to break through the traditional life education model and guide students to think deeply about the value of life, on the afternoon of May 28, Sun Hanfen, a psychological counselor and head of the counseling station of the School of Marine Science and Engineering, and Liao Yuexin, a lecturer of the School Relations Working Committee, led students into the Fushouyuan Harbor Cemetery to start a new exploration of life education with an original immersive live-action script The Long River of Life: Restart Life. The activity transforms the humanistic field of the cemetery into an immersive classroom, and allows young students to explore the true meaning of life in the dialogue between life and death through emotional collection-life restart-perception precipitation.
At the beginning of the activity, Manager Cao, the person in charge of Fushouyuan Harbor Cemetery, introduced the humanistic concept of the cemetery and the background of this activity to the teachers and students, and began to break the ice and group groups, and the team leader extracted and explored the scene. Different from traditional classrooms, students actively collect life energy blocks that symbolize life force energy by completing exploration tasks, and obtain life emotional fragments of joy, anger, sorrow and joy in the situation. During the exploration process, students can actively or passively go to the Sansheng Stone, which symbolizes reincarnation, and drink the exclusive Meng Po Soup prepared by NPCs according to the proportion of joy, anger, sorrow and emotional fragments that have been collected, so that they can get a precious opportunity to rebirth, and the group members can restart their empowerment.
Walking in the Fushouyuan Harbor Cemetery, where the heroes and martyrs rest, the weight of history and the choices of life and death in the script are intertwined and collided, resulting in a strong emotional and ideological resonance. In the emotional precipitation and review sharing session at the end of the activity, the students opened their hearts and shared their real insights. Many students mentioned that in the interweaving experience of the martyrs' tomb and the script task, they deeply understood the true meaning of cherishing life and creating infinite value in a limited life, and thinking about what should be pursued. The reboots in the script again and again made them realize that the steering wheel of life should be held in their own hands.
On the theme board of If I do it all over again, I..., the students wrote down their powerful thoughts: Life allows imperfection, we must be brave to try, The setbacks and regrets of the past are not meaningless, they are the cornerstone of growth, these feelings are the vivid embodiment of the original intention of the activity design.
The cooperation between the college and Fushouyuan Harbour Cemetery has opened up a new practical path for life education. When life issues meet well-designed immersive experiences, life education can be delivered in a more vivid and closer way to the hearts of young students. In the future, we will continue to deepen the cooperation with social resources such as Fushouyuan, and help students establish a positive and healthy outlook on life through multiple forms, so that the seeds of reverence for life and fearless trial and error can take root and grow in the hearts of young students.
Figure 1 Going to the Sansheng Stone, which symbolizes reincarnation
Figure 2 The students quickly stepped into their roles and delved into the carefully arranged thematic scenes of the cemetery
Figure 3 NPCs hand-mix their own Meng Po Soup according to the proportion of emotional fragments
Figure 4 The group members drink the Meng Po soup and have a chance to be reborn.
Figure 5 Teacher Liao Yuexin shares her insights
Figure 6 Student representatives share their insights
Figure 7 Group photo with staff